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24 minutes ago, Toe said:

 

Not in the current CFP format, but with the future 12-team playoff format, maybe?

Conference champs are auto-bids in the 12 team playoff so yes.

19 hours ago, 307husker said:

Purdue flat dropped quite a few balls that could have changed the overall tone of the game, if not the final result.   Glad to have the win, but far from cocky.

This has been true of pretty much every single one of our opponents. At some point you have to assume part of that is a mental impact the presence of our defense creates. 

My comments aren't even criticisms either, just observations. Like I said I'm plenty guilty of the thing I'm describing. While few people are saying Heinrich is actually an actively good quarterback, plenty are also overly soft in refraining from calling him a bad quarterback. 

1 hour ago, Enhance said:

We know that using the crown of the helmet is always targeting, but apparently just attacking a QB's head isn't if the QB isn't defenseless?

This is how I've understood the rule. It's either targeting based off using the crown of the helmet in any scenario, or based off forcible contact to the head/neck area specifically of a defenseless player.

1 hour ago, Mavric said:

 

Really this whole thing only shows that people will try to accuse others of this despite there being plenty of other reasons for their choice.

 

Sims turned the ball over six times in the first two games.  Since then he's played five plays and screwed up on four of them.

 

There is absolutely no reason anyone should be questioning why he isn't playing anymore.

I'm not talking about Sims at all.

There's a whole very wide lane of criticism and frustration that could/would be significantly more amplified toward HH's play that would be only based on him and have nothing to do with Sims. But, we saw Sims first, HH has the feel good local story and has the grace of being the backup, so we take it pretty easy on him. He's a pretty objectively bad quarterback and I can't help but root for him a bit more and not mind when he does boneheaded stuff. 

Two games in a row we've seen awful turnovers from HH, and while we've all closed the book on Sims for good I haven't seen a single person claiming that Chubba should get a shot to see what he can do, for example.

This game showed me more than any other how much fans are willing to forgive for a perceived hometown (or home state) hero compared to an 'outsider'. Myself included.

imo the contact wasn't forcible - it was the crown, and it was to the head or neck area but it was mostly incidental or rather a glancing hit, based on the live look and the replay look (i don't hold this opinion strongly, just my gut vibe perspective). I didn't think that the crown of the helment portion of the rule included forcible contact, but enhance's breakdown of the rules makes me realize I either haven't ever fully understood them or that they've since reworded the ruling.

3 hours ago, Archy1221 said:

And…..4 out of 10 Democrats believe unemployment is at a 50 yr high.  5 out of 10 Independents believe unemployment is at a 50 yr high.   With a Democrat President.  

7 hours ago, Archy1221 said:

However it is painful to the 65% of Republicans, Democrats, and Independents that think the economy is not working for them and why Biden has a primary challenger with other prominent Democrats saying he needs to go.  

Can you make up your mind whether the opinions of the american people are a valid defense or not?

We're getting better for sure, even if that's in no ways other than the fact that we know how to win a little bit more than we did last year or the year before.

The division this year is the worst it's been, maybe since it's existed? But it's still not easy, par se. While Wisconsin, Iowa, Northwestern and Minnesota all have had and do have occasional years of top 15 or top 25 level, the difference between their years with those squads compared to this year's squads is not a big one.

Not bias, but a massive L for the entire media apparatus.

https://www.silentlunch.net/p/did-the-entire-media-industry-misquote

Did the Entire Media Industry Misquote a Hamas Spokesperson?

I asked a dozen reporters and news outlets for the source of a statement they attributed to Hamas. None of them answered. This is a case study of the failure of journalistic standards.

 

....

 

On October 17, shortly after an explosion at a hospital in Gaza, headlines around the world declared that the Gaza Health Ministry said the blast had killed at least 500 people. This was reported by the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Post, ABC, NBC, CBS, FOX, CNN, NPR, PBS, the Associated Press, the Guardian, and Al Jazeera.

It was an alarming statistic, and its blanket coverage in the news gave a concrete anchor to the rage expressed by many around the world against Israel.

Except—after an extensive investigation, and a total lack of transparency by many of our most prestigious media outlets—I have found zero evidence that the Health Ministry spokesperson ever said that more than 500 people had died.

Offensive line is the one position group that is by far the most difficult to just get mercenaries to come in and make it great. As an athletically elite skill player Deion has never understood and continues to fail to understand the importance of development of the lines as a key ingredient to football success.

He's also falling into the classic and predictable dilemma that makes star players so often be terrible coaches. Because he was so innately gifted athletically, his narrative is that wanting it enough magically results in being amazing and there's nothing more to it, so when confronted with his players not being amazing he thinks that means that they don't care enough. 

At this point, bowl eligibility is a very attainable goal and even a likely one. Anything beyond that (honestly anything beyond 3-4 wins) is gravy and bonus and ahead of schedule. Our remaining four games are all winnable individually, but to win all of them collectively would be a herculean effort that would be incredible but I'm not holding my breath hoping for.

6 hours ago, Archy1221 said:

The black son lives in CA, has his own family now, and didn’t want to be in the public view.   I believe his wishes are to continue his non-public life. 

I wonder if we'll ever see any actual evidence of this black son existing.

2 hours ago, teachercd said:

I am super for the death penalty (as are most people with common sense)

Common sense easily leads to being against the death penalty. Too many people wrongly murdered by the government, and it's more expensive than just keeping them locked up. 

46 minutes ago, teachercd said:

Hmmm, it is against the law!

 

Why?  What reasoning would there be for that from a legal/government view?

A few reasons. Partly similar to how you can't buy alcohol in sundays in a lot of places; that is, a remnant of the judeo-christian influence on legislation in the history of our country.

Also partly to protect women - most notable examples of polygamy ended up with crazy power dynamics and was rife with abuse, and also often leads to a surplus of young, angry men unable to find a partner because the rich and powerful have snatched them all up (see, incels).

Get the government out of marriage altogether and everyone's got the right to make themselves as miserable as they want to be with how they live and who they do it with.

well-regulated militia = HELL YEAH!

gun regulations = wait no f#&% you

something like that?

I'm glad to see Israel grow in their intelligence so quickly. Less than a month ago they had no intel or clue about Hamas' locations or any activity or upcoming attacks and now they seem to quickly assembled a useful amount of knowledge of everything they need to kill them off.

Could Logan Smothers have been better than HH?
 

Maybe. Next.

3 hours ago, BigRedBuster said:

I was thinking about this during the NW game.  In years past, we would have someone get in the back field but totally whiff on the sack.  This year, we have guys that can actually land the hit.

And in the rare times that someone overpursues or doesn't square up, their presence causes enough of a delay that when the ball carrier makes a move and beats them there's 4-6 other red jerseys there cleaning up. You absolutely love to see it.

2 hours ago, Guy Chamberlin said:

 

It was a simpler time. First Reagan administration. 

I recently just saw a video of the front guy from The Butthole Surfers shooting a shotgun on stage at Lollapalooza in Chicago in the 90's - wild times.

5 hours ago, DevoHusker said:

What would you do/like to see done with the Isreali State and 10 million jewish people living there?

There's no easy answers here. By that I mostly mean, "there are no solutions that don't include a level of unfairness to some amount of people". There's also seemingly very little chance for it to ever actually get resolved peacefully and genuinely. But, if it were, it would necessitate the removal of Hamas organizationally and the removal of Israel's blockades and also occupation of large swaths of land that hundreds of thousands of Palestinian families had lived on for hundreds of years and they were displaced from.

3 hours ago, knapplc said:

 

 

I remember watching this live thinking, "How did he make that tackle?" That play was set up for a long gain.

I really love this defense. Feels like the 90's with how many hats swarm to the ball and how the looks are so aggressive and in your face pre-snap.

5 hours ago, teachercd said:

I still think (and this will never happen) that there should be a clear distinction between livable wage and HS kid working for some cash.

How do you legislate the distinction and have it not be discrimination?

1 hour ago, cheekygeek said:

 

Please find a QB Coach --V

 

 

Which position coach are you getting rid of?

1 hour ago, Archy1221 said:

I must have missed the memo of when Bill Maher turned “right”

His entire shtick is claiming to be a lib and then criticizing everything liberal and/or woke, and has been for a long time. 

I am not familiar with him pre the 2010s so for me it's kind of the opposite; I missed the memo of when he ever had actual liberal leanings.